Primary Election Thoughts
Neither party gives more than lip service to the values of large sections of American voters. And many voters don’t seem to care. After living through eighteen elections, it feels smashingly irregular to watch masses of voters swaying and clapping to rhetoric and propaganda on both sides. It’s scary. Going to vote last week felt urgently important, but I didn’t know how to vote. I wasn’t sure any candidate was qualified.
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Although the words “Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” may seem like the automatic repetition of a formulaic New Testament letter writing convention, I don’t think Paul would have used them if they were merely empty rhetoric.
Praying in the Spirit
I DON’T LIKE the phrase, New levels, new devils. At every “level” I find old devils right where I am. I have trouble separating the idea of being seated with Christ in Heavenly Places with my own limited mental take on “levels.” Climbing up feels like work to me, like aspiring to a position […]
